To:Moderator hutch-- Re: Questions regarding MASM.EXE file

[InstrSet8085]

I had no difficulties downloading or installing the masm editor however i am puzzled as to why my Norton Power Eraser utility said that masm.exe was bad and subsequently removed it. I regularly run this utility from Norton. I re-installed without further difficulty. I also have Eset Smart Security 6 anti-virus and Malwarebytes Pro edition.


Noton's Power Eraser does not automatically run. It is used to detect and remove entrenched viruses,malware,rootkits,etc. I have never had this problem with any other application's files being marked as bad .

I would greatly appreciate your response. Thank you for your help in my first post. :shock: 

[Vortex]

It's a false-positive. You can safely ignore Norton Power Eraser.

Similar cases :

http://masm32.com/board/index.php?board=23.0

[jj2007]

Vortex is right. Some anti-virus have very stupid heuristic scanners which cry foul when they encounter, for example, pushad and popad instructions - because C code rarely uses them.

By the way, in which folder did you find a MASM.EXE file??

[Vortex]

Hi InstrSet8085,

Are you sure that you downloaded Masm32 from the official site?

http://masm32.com/masmdl.htm

The setup file in the zip archive masm32v11r.zip is named install.exe not masm.exe